]]>Key Supply side enablers (decrease in cost of smart devices, declining cost of access) combined with rapid customer adoption (Uptake in 3G services and high smart phone sales) is accelerating the Internet adoption in India. Currently, in a country of 1.2 billion plus people and having more than 900 million plus mobile users and more than 50% of the mobiles capable to log on to internet, the current Internet contribution to Indian GDP is set to grow from 1.6% to anywhere between 2% to 3.5 %.

While investments are being made In Internet Backbone structure of the country through National Optical Fiber Network program and National Knowledge Network there is a need to optimize traffic management on a peering or transit basis and start looking at the network performance holistically.

India Interconnection & Peering Forum 2017 (IPIF-2017) is the maiden event of this community in India.

IPIF 2017 will be held on May 11-12, 2017. The Peering Forum will bring together national and global speakers who will share their thoughts and views on “Role of Internet Infrastructure in Digital India”.

In this forum, through presentations and a panel discussion, we would like to examine and discuss how Internet Infrastructure in India can be optimally utilized to allow access to large number of people with existing resources, leverage technologies and services to provide a faster and safer Internet experience.

The peering forum is having a session which will provide an opportunity to all networks to announce their network capability and statistics. There will be facility for one to one peering meetings which can be booked by the participants post registration through the IPIF 2017 website.

]]>http://iifon.org/2017/06/22/ipif-2017/feed/0Roundtable – 6 Mar 2017 | State of Critical Internet Infrastructure in Indiahttp://iifon.org/2017/06/22/roundtable-6-mar-2017-state-critical-internet-infrastructure-india/
http://iifon.org/2017/06/22/roundtable-6-mar-2017-state-critical-internet-infrastructure-india/#respondThu, 22 Jun 2017 17:00:36 +0000http://iifon.org/beta/?p=305series of roundtables with the local community is planned to bring in the local perspective on the State of critical Internet Infrastructure in India. While investments are being made In Internet Backbone infrastructure throughout the country through the National Optical Fiber Network program and National Knowledge Network, there is still a need to optimize traffic management on a…

]]>series of roundtables with the local community is planned to bring in the local perspective on the State of critical Internet Infrastructure in India. While investments are being made In Internet Backbone infrastructure throughout the country through the National Optical Fiber Network program and National Knowledge Network, there is still a need to optimize traffic management on a peering or transit basis and start looking at local network performance holistically.

]]>http://iifon.org/2017/06/22/dnsdnssec-workshop-icann/feed/0Twin Workshops on Routing & Security By Internet Society Kolkata Chapterhttp://iifon.org/2017/06/22/twin-workshops-routing-security-internet-society-kolkata-chapter/
http://iifon.org/2017/06/22/twin-workshops-routing-security-internet-society-kolkata-chapter/#respondThu, 22 Jun 2017 16:07:12 +0000http://iifon.org/beta/?p=275These are technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab work. The workshops will run from 7th March – 9th March from 10 AM – 6 PM at Hotel Indismart, Sector V, Salt Lake Electronics Complex, Kolkata. Track I will be on DNS Concepts & Security and will include trainers from the Internet…

]]>These are technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab work. The workshops will run from 7th March – 9th March from 10 AM – 6 PM at Hotel Indismart, Sector V, Salt Lake Electronics Complex, Kolkata.

Track I will be on DNS Concepts & Security and will include trainers from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN). It will cover

Track II will be on BGP & IXPs and will include trainers from APNIC. This is a technical workshop, made up of lectures and hands-on lab work to teach OSPF/ISIS and BGP skills required for network operators to participate at an IXP. The Course Outline is OSPF/ISIS configuration for Service Provider networks,

]]>http://iifon.org/2017/06/22/twin-workshops-routing-security-internet-society-kolkata-chapter/feed/0IIFON IX – Neutral & Community Driven Efforthttp://iifon.org/2017/06/22/iifon-ix-neutral-community-driven-effort/
http://iifon.org/2017/06/22/iifon-ix-neutral-community-driven-effort/#respondThu, 22 Jun 2017 16:04:41 +0000http://iifon.org/beta/?p=272A blog by leading expert, Mr. Anurag Bhatia on on the benefits of a good IX and IIFON IX in line with the IX setup in the region. The line is not for profit model and a collective community effort to make internet infrastructure better. Some of the key deliverables which can be achieved from the…

]]>A blog by leading expert, Mr. Anurag Bhatia on on the benefits of a good IX and IIFON IX in line with the IX setup in the region. The line is not for profit model and a collective community effort to make internet infrastructure better. Some of the key deliverables which can be achieved from the IIFON IX are:

Helps in reducing overall cost of bandwidth by keeping it local

Helps in giving ultra-low latency interconnections among members

Builds resilience across the internet by removing the dependency on transit players for local traffic and a lot more! Fore details

After signing the MoU, Dr. Monowar H. Bhuyan, HOD, CSE department gave a presentation on three fold scope and objectives of the MoU. The initial aspect of MOU is to:

Set-up e-Raksha Research Centre and Centre of Excellence-DDoS in Kaziranga University.

Setting up of a honey network and hardware security test-bed.

Promote innovation, designing of algorithms and developing indigenous software tools for cyber security under the “Make-in-India” initiative of Government of India.

To encourage research in the field of Cyber Security and Cyber Defence.

To constitute a think-tank and functioning through various expert committees to learn, understand, analyze, resolve and manage cyber security critical internet infrastructure issues.

Collaboration and extension with other institutions and ensuring public and private partnership.

Jointly applying for grants and contributions for the projects related to cyber security and critical internet infrastructure from governments, industries and other bodies.

Starting new courses on cyber security and cyber-crime investigations subject to prior approval of Academic Council of KAZIRANGA UNIVERSITY

Promote entrepreneurship in cyber security to support the “Startup India” and “Standup India” initiatives of the Government of India.

Capacity development is one of the core mandates of the MoU which includes:

Cyber security awareness events and workshops throughout the year.

All India Cyber Security Hackathon (The Kaziranga university is chosen as the nodal centre) thrice in a year.

Internship, specialized training and helping in placements

Working on Next Generation Internet Standards.

Shri Satya Narayan Pradhan, in his congratulatory speech mentioned that, this MoU comes at a very important time where cyber attacks are increasing worldwide due to unscientific access of internet among the users. There is a dearth need of cyber security cell in the north east and Kaziranga University can play a vital role in this regard. Shri Pradhan recommended to explore the aspects of security in social networks as this is the prime focus Government as well. Apart from this, he also mentioned that how Government can help through different funding scheme. He congratulates the KU management and CSE department of KU to take the initiative.

Later the team of delegates examined the research activities and visited the cyber security infrastructure including Data centre of KU.